SmartShot in Canada

An underground silver/gold/copper and zinc mine situated in Manitoba, Canada, has been using DetNet’s electronic detonators supplied by Dyno Nobel in their secondary production stopes since May 2006.

The mine has reaped the benefits of the flexibility, ease of use, and rugged design of the HotShot Plus and more recently the SmartShot electronic initiation system. By utilising the advantage of the SmartShot electronic initiation system, the mine is able to shoot larger production shots, thus improving their production cycles by removing the ore from the mine more rapidly than they may have using conventional initiation systems. They have also minimised their worker exposure to a potentially hazardous working environment by removing more ore in a single blast rather than a series of blasts. A cross-functional team has been formed between Dyno Nobel and mine staff to implement the SmartShot electronic initiation system in other mining applications at the mine.